LIFE magazine’s Gjon Mili, a technical prodigy and lighting innovator,
visited Pablo Picasso in the South of France in 1949. The meeting of
these two marvelous minds and sensibilities was bound to result in
something extraordinary. Mili showed the artist some of his photographs
of ice skaters with tiny lights affixed to their skates, jumping in the
dark — and Picasso’s lively mind began to race. Eis o link...